NO REDD in Africa Network (NRAN) is a platform of entities that oppose all kinds of REDD*.
*(Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation).

News & Updates
Why did Jacob Zuma represent Belarus at the Africa Voluntary Carbon Credits Market Forum in Zimbabwe?
This week saw the first Africa Voluntary Carbon Credits Market Forum in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. Organised by Africa Voluntary Carbon Credits Market and Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Environment, the Forum’s theme is “Accelerating Africa into the Climate Economy”. Bloomberg...
TotalEnergies’ carbon plantations have “snatched” farmers’ land in the Republic of Congo
TotalEnergies is one of the world’s biggest oil companies. In 2022, it made a profit of US$16 billion. At the company’s 2023 Shareholders’ Meeting, shareholders rejected a resolution to set targets “aligned with the Paris Climate Agreement” scope 3...
Anatomy of a ‘Nature-Based Solution’: Total oil, 40,000 hectares of disappearing African savannah, Emmanuel Macron, Norwegian and French ‘aid’ to an election-rigging dictator, trees to burn, secret contacts, and dumbstruck conservationists
On 16 March 2021, Total – the French company ranked seventh globally for production of oil – announced plans to plant a “40,000 hectare forest” in the Republic of Congo, the aim of which is to “sequester more than 10 million tons of CO2 over 20 years”. The company...
This Will Set Africa on Fire: Nnimmo Bassey of Nigeria Blasts Progress of Talks at U.N. Climate Summit
Today a draft agreement at COP26 was released, calling on nations to accelerate the phasing out of coal and fossil fuel subsidies and make pledges to cut emissions by the end of 2022. The draft also urges wealthy nations to “urgently scale-up” financial support for...
African tropical mountain forests store 2/3rd more carbon than previously estimated: Study
The Nature report underscores the vital role these tropical forests play in combating climate changeResearchers examined carbon storage in the above-ground biomass of mountain forests on 226 selected plots spread over 44 mountain sites in 12 African countries — from...
The trouble with trees: The African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative is based on a “profound misreading of Africa’s grassy biomes”
By Chris Lang The African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100) aims “to bring 100 million hectares of land in Africa into restoration by 2030”. AFR100 is an offshoot of the Bonn Challenge. The Bonn Challenge aims to “restore forest landscapes”...

About No-REDD
NO REDD in Africa Network (NRAN) is a platform of African Civil Society organizations, movements, activists and individuals that oppose all kinds of REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation). The NRAN was founded during the World Social Forum, held in Tunis, Tunisia, in March 2013.
Our Areas of Focus
Forests & Biodiversity
Forests are not a mere collection of trees but are complex, biodiverse ecosystems that support human communities, other beings and overall health of the planet. Direct benefits to human communities include the fact that forests are spaces for cultural, spiritual, health, socio-economic and educational activities…
Plantations & Agriculture
Plantations are monocultural collections of trees and crops. Plantations and industrial agriculture are major drivers of deforestation and displacement of human communities. NRAN rejects carbon trading and carbon offsets of any kind by any name including with soils, crops, grasslands, and genetically engineered…
Climate Change
NRAN believes that climate change is a symptom of a systemic failure. The system that drives climate change depends on continuous extraction and burning of fossil fuels, industrial agriculture and over consumption. False solutions are built on principles of market environmentalism and include carbon trading, various types of REDD, Net Zero, decarbonization…
Extractives
Extractive activities continue to cause massive deforestation, destruction of lands, poisoning of water bodies and pollution of lands and the atmosphere. Extractivism equally provokes militarisation and displacement of communities. NRAN supports communities in the defence of their territories, including their right to reject exploitative…
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No-REDD in Africa
NO REDD in Africa Network (NRAN) is a platform of African Civil Society organizations, movements, activists and individuals that oppose all kinds of REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation).